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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Clostridium botulinum
SUBMITTER: Mark Jacobson
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-10223 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Applied and environmental microbiology 20080523 14
A group of five clonally related Clostridium botulinum type A strains isolated from different sources over a period of nearly 40 years harbored several conserved genetic properties. These strains contained a variant bont/A1 with five nucleotide polymorphisms compared to the gene in C. botulinum strain ATCC 3502. The strains also had a common toxin gene cluster composition (ha-/orfX+) similar to that associated with bont/A in type A strains containing an unexpressed bont/B [termed A(B) strains]. ...[more]